VOL. XLII

No. 04

25-January-1999

The Political Scene

Russia has now presented the Security Council with its ideason the future relationship between Iraq and the UN, which complement those putforward by France last week and have therefore proved equally unacceptable tothe US. Despite a Canadian attempt to keep discussions going, there is littlesign of an end to the current deadlock at the UN. The Americans campaign tooverthrow the present Iraqi regime suffered something of a setback when most of...